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Nymphatelina gravida

thanks for everyone who stopped by on another one of my impromptu art streams!

that night i drew two Nymphatelina gravida as viewed from a microscope

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Here's the little 3D animation project I've been working on! Featuring some ancient cephalopods from the Silurian period. Octameroceras and Dawsonoceras.

The full video is on youtube!

#paleoart #nautiloid #blender3d #orthoceras #silurian #dawsonoceras #cephalopod #oncocerida #octameroceras #oncocerid #Youtube

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He moves

#paleo art #paleoart #dawsonoceras #orthoceras #cephalopod #ocean #Nautiloid #palaeoblr #animation #animation 3d #3d animation #Spotify

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Doodlin

#nautilus #nautiloid #palaeoblr #paleoart #doodlysketch #procreate #illustration #cephalopod

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Some clay El wiwis

#art #clay #sculpting #ammonite #jawless fish

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Dawsonoceras is another cephalopod that swam the waters of Sillurian Gotland. They are an orthoceratid straight-shelled nautilid that floated in a vertical position on the water collumn.

Although they are far smaller than some of the other orthocones and endoceratids that reached lengths of up to 5 meters, their shell is just as beautiful to behold.

Kröger, B. (2013). The cephalopods of the Boda Limestone, Late Ordovician, of Dalarna, Sweden. European Journal of Taxonomy, (41).

Above specimens A,B, & E are dawsonoceratids, Scale bars: 10 mm.

From what I can gather, their adult shell diameter reaches 2.5 cm wide and it's hard to guess the total length because a lot of the shells are fragmentary. There seems to be one complete specimen online that was described to be 7.1" inches long

And another here that's 40 cm long, although it's an ID-guess from the blog poster

#paleoart #palaeoblr #paleontology #cephalopod #blender #blender3d #3d model #3d art #3d modelling #3d #orthocone #dawsonoceras #silurian #gotland

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スタディー古生物

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Pahvantia

Pahvantia! because im tryna crack down on learning radiodont anatomy currently, literal bobblehead shrimp

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Honestly, robbed.

#katie lee deserved better

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Researching the environment the Oncocerids lived in, some of the silurian reefs in Gotland, Sweden were primarily comprised of Stromatoporoid sponges.

These were sponges that grew in layers encrusting on rocks, sediments, each other. Creating a reef over time

The ones depicted here are new budding reefs, relatively empty, growing atop a sediment of crinoid fragments

Older reefs would have shared their space with tangles of camerate crinoids, which at the time were abundant and were found to be the most numerous at the reef flanks

(something I will get to modelling after this and I dread it)

#paleoart #paleo art #palaeoblr #paleontology #silurian #stromatoporoid #sponges #ocean #blender3d #blender #palaeozoic

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Another bibby

Although the only nautiloids living today have characteristic tightly coiled shells, earlier in their evolutionary history these cephalopods were much more diverse.

And Glossoceras gracile here is an example of one of the more unusual groups of nautloids: the ascocerids.

Living during the Late Silurian, about 422 million years ago, in wheat is now Gotland, Sweden, Glossoceras was only around 5cm long as an adult (~2"). Like other ascocerids it started out its life looking like a fairly standard early nautiloid, with a long straight shell that curved slightly upwards, but as it approached maturity things got weird – the front part of the shell grew out into a much more bulbous flask-like shape, and the old juvenile section broke off entirely.

The gas-filled buoyancy chambers of its adult shell were positioned directly above its body chamber rather than behind like in other nautiloids, giving it very good stability in the water. The shell walls were also very thin and lightweight, which would have made it a much more maneuverable swimmer.

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This floating alien egg is Octameroceras, they're part of a group of cephalopods called Oncocerids which diverged earlier than the nautiloids and ammonites.

As they reach maturity, their shell opening, the aperture closes in on their face creating these Giger-esque shapes, and we can only speculate what bizarre mangled forms the creature peeping through that opening would have.

[image credit: Stridsberg, S. 1 985 05 09: Silurian oncocerid cephalopods from Gotland. Fossils and Strata, N o. 1 8, pp. 1-65. Oslo ISSN 0300- 9491. ISBN 82- 00- 07575-3.]

#art #paleoart #paleo art #palaeoblr #paleontology #cephalopod #Oncocerid #Oncocerida #octameroceras #Palaeozoic #blender3d #blender #3d model #animation 3d #animation #sea creatures

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Spotted some Meganeuras on my last trip

#meganeura #digital art #illustration #paleoart #photo editing #carboniferous #palaeoblr #Palaeozoic

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Scalacurvichthys naishi

Scalacurvichthys is a genus of pycnodontid fish from Palestine. I felt like drawing a cool fish, and also because science is in no way apolitical.

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Well hello there... just a chonky Cadoceras ammonite passing by

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This has taken up a month of my life

#paleoart #paleontology #blender #blender3D #3d model #digital art #ammonite #cadoceras #palaeoblr